Search Results - "Sociology"

Land use options in dry tropical woodland ecosystems in Zimbabwe: Introduction, overview and synthesis by Campbell, Bruce M., Costanza, R., Belt, M. van den

“…Modelling is seen as a framework for integration of ecological and economic issues, but further work is required to incorporate institutional perspectives from the sociological and anthropological disciplines.…”
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The multi-functionality of goats in rural Mozambique: Contributions to food security and household risk mitigation by Boogaard, Birgit K., Moyo, Siboniso

“…The paper takes a sociological approach by advancing the thinking that the functions of goats are socially and culturally constructed, and not ‘given’. …”
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A review of breeding objectives, genomic resources, and marker-assisted methods in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by Assefa, Teshale, Mahama, A. Assibi, Brown, Anne V., Cannon, Ethalinda K.S., Rubyogo, Jean-Claude, Rao, Idupulapati M., Blair, Matthew W., Cannon, Steven B.

“…Also important are sociological insights related to demand-led breeding, which considers local value chains, from farmers to traders to retailers and consumers.…”
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Platser planerade för det oplanerade : om att ta det offentliga rummet i anspråk by Tiderman Häll, Amanda, Lennefors, Veronica

“…En intervju av en extern sociolog har även utförts. Sammanfattningsvis har metoderna varit framgångsrika men vi har upptäckt att begreppet medborgardialog och dess metoder innefattar en hög komplexitet. …”

First External Programme and Management Review of CIFOR, 1998 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, CGIAR Secretariat

“…The panel recommended expanding the board to strengthen competencies in the private sector, finance and management, and also familiarity with the CGIAR.In discussions at TAC 75, and its commentary, TAC called attention to the importance of sociological and economic research in relation to forestry, an area not specifically addressed by the panel. …”
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Improved pastures and some challenges of agricultural innovation adoption by Triana Ángel, Natalia, Campuzano, Lorena, Burkart, Stefan

“…Although early studies recognised that adoption is affected not only by the promise of economic profitability but also by other attributes of the innovation, such as compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability, economic analysis that barely touched upon sociological factors or the non-contingent character of extension programmes dominated the literature until recent years. …”
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Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for Clean Development Mechanism afforestation and reforestation by Zomer, Robert J., Trabucco, Antonio, Bossio, Deborah A., Verchot, Louis V.

“…In Asia the majority of the land was low-intensity agriculture. The sociologic and ecological analyses showed that large amounts of suitable land exhibited relatively low population densities. …”
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Testing the impact of social forces on the evolution of Sahelian farming systems: a combined agent-based modeling and anthropological approach by Saqalli, M., Gerard, Bruno G., Bielders, Charles L., Defourny, Pierre

“…This article presents the results of a methodology based on an extensive sociological fieldwork in three different sites settled along a gradient of aridity in Nigerien Sahel. …”
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Climate change mitigation: a spatial analysis of global land suitability for clean development mechanism afforestation and reforestation by Zomer, Robert J., Trabucco, Antonio, Bossio, Deborah A., Verchot, Louis V.

“…In Asia the majority of the land was low-intensity agriculture. The sociologic and ecological analyses showed that large amounts of suitable land exhibited relatively low population densities. …”
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Trygghet och säkerhet i offentlig stadsmiljö by Götborg, Daniel

“…The safety aspect treats the human psychological and sociological ways of perceiving her milieu and other humans in it, and how the physical shape of her surroundings can affect the sense of safety. …”
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A cross-disciplinary mixed-method approach to understand how food retail environment transformations influence food choice and intake among the urban poor: Experiences from Vietnam by Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid C.O., Raneri, Jessica Evelyn

“…We demonstrate that integrated sociological and nutritional perspectives are productive in rapidly generating evidence to comprehend the complex trade-offs between food safety and nutrition in everyday food consumption practices. …”
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Recent advances in research on draught ruminants by Pearson, R.A., Zerbini, E., Lawrence, P.R.

“…The technical and agronomic innovations necessary for the introduction of animal power into an inland valley region of central Nigeria are described and some of the sociological implications discussed.…”
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Second External Programme and Management Review of ICRAF, 1998 by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee, CGIAR Secretariat

“…TAC expressed some concern about the panel analysis of the quality of science, and urged ICRAF to strengthen its sociological and economics research. The board should strengthen its program oversight, and commission external reviews for this purpose. …”
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Deliberation or symbolic violence?: the governance of community forestry in Nepal by Ojha, H.R., Cameron, J., Kumar, C.

“…The paper following Bourdieu, stipulates crisis as a necessary condition for the development of demands for increased deliberation by subordinated participants, and then explore sociological conditions for the development of crises into the situation of symbolic violence. …”
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Intermediate Community Use during Brownfield Remediation Phytoremediation’s Applicability Analysis in the Post-Industrial City of Malmö by Chimura, Rie

“…The recognition of brownfields from ecological, spatial, sociological and economic standpoints may add a new layer of identity in revitalising the post-industrial city of Malmö.…”
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Technical Advisory Committee Seventy-Sixth Meeting, 22-26 March 1999: Report of the Meeting by CGIAR Technical Advisory Committee

“…TAC agreed with the ILRI review panel that the center should revise its strategic plan, questioned the further pursuit of a trypanosomiasis vaccine, and urged ILRI to strengthen its sociological research.TAC prepared a report for the CGIAR on center proposals for 2000, and initial proposals for 2002,. …”
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Chasing the water: the political economy of water management and catchment development in the Karamoja-Turkana Complex (KTC), Uganda by Nicol, Alan, Debevec, Liza, Okene, S.

“…For centuries, this subregion has been a remote area of agropastoralism situated on the sociological and ecological border between the Nile and Turkana basins. …”
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Tapping into the environmental co-benefits of improved tropical forages for an agroecological transformation of livestock production systems by Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Douxchamps, Sabine, Villegas, Daniel Mauricio, Arango, Jacobo, Paul, Birthe K., Burkart, Stefan, Rao, Idupulapati M., Kettle, Christopher J., Rudel, Thomas, Vásquez, Eduardo, Teutscherova, Nikola, Chirinda, Ngonidzashe, Groot, Jeroen C.J., Wironen, Michael, Pulleman, Mirjam Margreet, Louhaichi, Mounir, Hassan, Sawsan, Oberson, Astrid, Nyawira, Sylvia S., Pinares-Patino, Cesar S., Peters, Michael

“…More research is, however, needed at the food system scale to fully understand the role of forages in the sociological and process aspects of agroecology. We make the case for further genetic improvement of cultivated forages and strong multi-disciplinary systems research to strengthen our understanding of the multidimensional impacts of forages and for managing agro-environmental trade-offs. …”
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Environmental risk assessment of Tsunami-affected areas in Ishinomaki, Japan by Makita, K., Inoshita, K., Kayano, T., Hagiwara, K., Asakawa, M., Ogawa, K., Noda, J., Sasaki, H., Higuchi, H., Iwano, H., Tamura, Y.

“…From these results, risk was not so high but continuous monitoring is recommended. Sociological studies needs to be carried out to understand people’s intention of living in the areas again in order to present the overall risks.…”
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Environmental risk assessment of tsunami-affected areas in Ishinomaki, Japan by Makita, K., Inoshita, K., Kayano, T., Hagiwara, K., Asakawa, M., Ogawa, K., Noda, J., Sasaki, H., Higuchi, H., Iwano, H., Tamura, Y.

“…From these results, risk was not so high but continuous monitoring is recommended. Sociological studies needs to be carried out to understand people’s intention of living in the areas again in order to present the overall risks.…”
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